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THE FAERY ISLE OF JANJIRA- Sarojini Naidu

Fain would I dwell in your faery kingdom,

O faery queen of a flowering clime,

Where life glides by to a delicate measure,

With the glamour and grace of a far-off time.

Fain would I dwell where your wild doves wander,

Your palm-woods burgeon and sea-winds sing......

Lulled by the tune of the rhythmic waters,

In your Island of Bliss it is always spring.

COROMANDAL FISHERS - Sarojini Naidu

  Rise, brothers, rise, the wakening skies pray to

  the morning light,

  The wind lies asleep in the arms of the dawn

  like a child that has cried all night.                      2

  Come, let us gather our nets from the shore, and

  set our catamarans free,

  To capture the leaping wealth of the tide, for

  we are the sons of the sea!                                     4

  No longer delay, let us hasten away in the track

  of the seagull’s call,

  The sea is our mother, the cloud is our brother,

  the waves are our comrades all.                            6

Dawn (n)- the first light of day

Coromandal (n)- the south-east coast of India on the Bay of Bengal

Catamarans (n)- logs of wood tied together as raft

Seagull (n)- a seabird with long wings 

Comrade (n)- a companion or associate

1.  Who is the speaker of the poem? Who does he address?

Ans: A fisherman / the leader of the group of fishermen. He addresses his friends / comrades / brothers. 

2.  What does the speaker ask his friends to do?

Ans: The speaker asks his friends to wake up / rise.

3.  The speaker has other friends than his fellow fishermen. Who are they?

Ans: The cloud and the waves.

4.  What is the leaping wealth of the tide?

Ans: The fish is the leaping wealth of the tide.

5.  What is the wind compared to?

Ans: The wind is compared to a child that has cried all night.

Rhyming words from the first three stanzas

Light-night; free-sea; call-all.

Rhyme scheme for the first three stanzas

aa bb cc

ACTIVITY

Match the following:

1.Wind- brother

2.Fish- mother

3.Fishermen- comrades

4.Sea- leaping wealth of the tide

5.Cloud- sons of the sea

6.Waves- a child that has cried all night

ANSWER / TEACHER’S VERSION

1.Wind- a child that has cried all night

2.Fish- leaping wealth of the tide

3.Fishermen- sons of the sea

4.Sea- mother

5.Cloud- brother

6.Waves- comrades  

ASSIGNMENT

  Imagine yourself to be a fisherman and write a small paragraph about your day to day activities.